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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4
Date: 9 Mar 2014 01:18:43 GMT
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On 2014-03-08, paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink <paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink> wrote:
> I bought a MacBook Pro about a year and a half ago.  It came with Lion
> loaded on the drive, but I was entitled to a free upgrade to Mountain
> Lion.  I put in for the free upgrade but, for a variety of reasons, held
> off installing it.  Today I decided to do so.  So my About this Mac now
> reads OSX 10.8.  I then wanted to upgrade to the latest reasonably
> unbuggy version.  After a little research I figure that this may well be
> 10.8.4.  I definitely do not want to go to Maverick, OSX 9, free or
> otherwise.  This old dog doesn't wish to learn a lot of new tricks.  But
> I can't find a link anywhere for what use to be considered a free
> upgrade version.  Three questions:
>
> 1)  What the hell is going on with Apple?  A few years ago it would have
> been inconceivable that I would have to ask this group a question like
> this.  It seems that Apple has transformed itself into an involuntary
> suppository injector.

I'm confused as to why you are having a hard time finding this, and have
to wonder what exactly you've tried so far in your search. 

It almost sounds as if you do not want to use Apple's built-in software
update facility (Apple menu > Software Update). Are you averse to using
that for some reason?

Anyhow, a simple Google search shows a hit on support.apple.com named
"OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8.4 - Apple - Support - Downloads".
Clicking that leads you here, where you can manually download and
install said update (and even some newer ones):

<http://support.apple.com/downloads/#osxmountainlion>

> 2)  Is this link/upgrade available?

See above.

> 3)  Any feedback on my choice of 10.8.4?

In general, I would encourage you to use the latest available release.

If you are willing to use 10.8, then you should strongly consider
upgrading to 10.9, which fixes a whole lot of issues that people
complained about when 10.8 was released. In a lot of ways, 10.9 is a big
round of fixes for issues introduces in 10.8.

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